when the drone heat i was outside with my grandmother and everything became dark i was scared a pakistani girl who survived a u.s. drone attack travels to washington to tell congress our home was destroyed and her grandmother was killed. also this week angered by n.s.a. spying and delegation fails to get explanations from u.s. officials while germany turns to edward snowden to get answers about the tapping of chancellor merkel's phone. brazil germany firearms. and speed of course in the united states is going to repeat itself continuously we hear from n.s.a. leaks reporter glenn greenwald who says u.s. intelligence will continue to harvest data despite outrage from the public and its

allies. and behind the barbed wire are two reports from inside guantanamo prison where over a dozen detainees are still on hunger strike in a bitter protest over their indefinite detention and mistreatment. welcome to the weekly this sunday here in our nice now with a look back at the week's top stories a pakistani family who lost their grandmother in a cia drone strike traveled to washington this week to testify before congress or she's going to can was at the emotional briefing where family members asked u.s. lawmakers why their home was targeted in the first place. this was the first time actual victims of u.s.

drone strikes were in congress and apart from the congressman who initiated this briefing i saw only four other members of congress it's no secret the u.s. congress generally approves of growth strikes so it's very difficult to expect a sudden change of heart even though heart was what these drone victims were appealing through on appeal with twenty fourth of last year a u.s. drone strike left this pakistani family devastated a nine year old girl and her thirteen year old brother nearly escaped death that day their sixty seven year old grandmother was killed that's the border pardon me i no longer love blue skies i prefer the gray skies the drones do not fly when the skies are gray and for a short period of time the mental time and fear eases but when this kind of run the drones return and so does the fear you know this family has never been abroad out of their home in north waziristan and the father of this family said he looked at the life around here. he wished his children to be able to walk the streets not

afraid of being bombed at any moment. my mother was killed my children were injured i'm so glad that people are going to hear our story that's why we came to america we have no idea why our village in my house is talking to. the family came to washington of course hoping to get answers to why they have to live in fear every day i have no idea why my grandmother was killed when the drone hate i was outside with my grandmother everything became dark i was scared so i started to run then i noticed my hand was bleeding so i tried to clean my hand but not kept coming out but i was very scared so i just kept running. we also learned that the u.s. government did not grant peace to the lawyer of this family prominent practice any lawyer who has sued the cia in the past on behalf of the victims of drone strikes in pakistan four hundred fifty thousand vocalisation of. users. to losing in a concentration camp where they're being picked for food this is off what kind of

floats to live show on has long been for someone's driving. s.u.v. and this is how they're being targeted and at the same time they're not really in a position to leave the area the purpose of this briefing was to put a human face to drone strikes there's a short chance that in congress the tragedy of this family will fall on deaf ears but there is hope that the public will put notice in washington i'm going to check out. now the u.s. claims few civilians have been killed by the three hundred seventy six drone attacks which have been launched over the past decade local reports however suggest at least nine hundred innocent people including up to two hundred tell dran have been killed documentary filmmaker robert greenwald took the story of the raymond family as inspiration for his latest movie and says the public doesn't understand the real consequence of using drones people want to believe in santa claus and they

also want to believe that there's a simple solution to these incredibly complicated problems when we started reading that the drones were killing only high value targets or represented an imminent threat doesn't make sense it's just not possible so i think there was a kind of hopefulness yes finally we found a magic pill which is part of it some of it is the fact that american soldiers warrant there so people said it doesn't matter as to what is the you know the families making to all kinds of americans people who have a mother will have a father and who look at them and can't justify the killing that we've done and then you have this extraordinary militarily industrial electoral complex bipartisan that agrees that the way to solve problems is by invading occupying and droning we have to change all of our. and the drone campaign in pakistan may have

shorted a chance for peace as you say u.s. strike kills the taliban leader in pakistan just as the government was prepared to start negotiations the details coming up later in the program. a group of e.u. diplomats who travel to washington this week seeking explanations about the n.s.a. spying activities left without answers delegation complained the u.s. provided no clarification over eavesdropping on world leaders and whether the white house had any knowledge of it they described america's response as feeble and warned it could aggravate relations erland specifically has been angered by the tapping of chancellor angela merkel's phone germany is considering asking the man behind all these leaks edward snowden to help explain what happened german green m.p. met the whistleblower in moscow to ask him to give evidence to parliament. he repeated i think it's important to work together with mr snowden rather than

putting him in prison we'd like more clarity on these allegations and we want to make sure something like this doesn't happen again snowden worked for many years for the cia and n.s.a. so i'm sure he could tell us everything we need to know about the leaked documents because as we've seen the n.s.a. has been very scarce with providing information i also think that the organization including the n.s.a. chief keith alexander aren't always being true for they once claimed they'll never break german laws on their surveillance operations but tapping the chancellor's phone is not legal that's why i have trouble trusting u.s. intelligence officials. with the n.s.a. revelations have triggered something of a blame game in washington secretary of state john kerry pointed a finger at the intelligence service services claiming the n.s.a. ran certain operations without letting the white house know. so that is not only that it is a lot of the outer. circle is there really is there over the course of

a longer. and there to spying by autopilot while the head of the n.s.a. said the contrary it's policy makers not the intelligence services who select targets and journalist glenn greenwald who has been releasing snowden's leaks says despite the scandal the n.s.a. will not scale back its activities. in brazil or germany in finance. and speed of course in the united states is going to repeat itself continuously for the next several weeks or months and almost every country around the world to be very clear objective of the senate is to not just go after all this but to keep it for as long as they can and so the big any time. if you're a citizen of spain or anyone else you learn everything they've been doing in terms of they've been you. had to argy dot com for more reaction an opinion on the n.s.a.

leaks including an interview with an encryption specialist talking about his mission to resist spying and bring back privacy. after eight months over a dozen guantanamo bay detainees remain on hunger strike in protest at their indefinite detention and the use of torture the inmates are being force fed in a brutal procedure that the u.s. military continues to defend our she's an associate churkin last sent this report from inside the prison center. every morning at eight am the u.s. national anthem erupts across the base that holds america's most scandalous prison no one likes to be spit on no one wants to have their own on torture hunger strikes and suicides have marred this place since two thousand and two and they're human beings after all they're there's no reason to expect that they enjoy being here you know we pretend otherwise prisoners held indefinitely in the name of the never ending war on terror whether they're innocent or guilty is not our job right now we

have the court system determined that in just over a decade a total of seven hundred seventy nine prisoners the majority released without charges today one hundred sixty four remain over half of them cleared for release but still kept locked up. on the other side of the barbed wire. life is a blast. furnace and water and it's nice there's nothing really bad about here just like any common american town now is awfully scared to come here but i mean it's absolutely beautiful place and you get around all the other stuff getting around the other stuff is not hard a lot of what goes on here is kept under a thick veil of denial and secrecy delta house is a hospital and library and this is also a place where patients are force fed and even though the hunger strike is largely and officially said to be over we know that at least fifteen people are continually being force fed here today a tube is passed down through

a person's nostril and pushed all the way down to their stomach before it's passed down the nose we lubricate it in we give the patient a choice do they want to have the key which is agent it will numb the area or if they want to lubricate the tube. most of our patients have been using all of the will. in fact some of our patients are so used to this they will. described which nostril they want this while major world medical bodies are in agreement that force feeding is not ethical and should not be practiced the force feeding them i've got my clients of experience to guantanamo they've certainly described the storage or the restraint chair that they're strapped into they actually call the torture chair an arabic force feeding takes up to forty five minutes and is performed twice a day the patients that had the civilian world have said it feel strange i've never

heard insisting on. i have not heard that good move fishes are beyond nonchalant about the highly criticized practice you might feel differently from the way i might feel it uncomfortable has been the most of it i have heard but they don't even believe in what they're saying anyway because they know it sounds stupid i volunteer that the procedure be demonstrated on me requests to climbed the prisoners who've not met one another and speak different languages keep saying the same thing that we were tortured used. to the chair legs to the ground. strap across and they forced in a tube into our noses never in thirteen years have detainees been allowed to speak directly to a journalist while remaining at get most only leaking statements through lawyers they would love nothing more than to sit down with journalists and just tell them you know about their daily lives but communicating seems to only occur here if someone was a point where maybe they had been verbalizing a lot of hopelessness we were immediately intervening and trying to

assist that person to make sure that there wasn't any thoughts of maybe wanting to harm themselves or in their lives with charts like these often used to pinpoint patients despair you asked them how do you feel right now and they'll be able to point to it we have not had a patient in this area. thank you meanwhile six suicides and dozens of suicide attempts have taken place at the detention facility we haven't seen any autopsies the u.s. government hasn't released any formal reports or findings we're now inside two active camps at guantanamo camp five old single cells where the so-called compliant detainees are held camp number six is one filled with communal cells when officials deem the detainees better there will be warded by being allowed to live in groups while detainees are kept away from us what we witness are clean empty prison cells with cozy pajamas colgate toothpaste and maximum security shampoos paraded in front

of journalists as proof everything is so much better here than any silly horror stories we all have heard and. cuba. still ahead for this hour a toxic path to disarmament the syrian government dismantled the chemical weapons production facilities but the whole process hangs in the balance while some rebel groups refuse to take part in the process. do you think your argument about turkey being dot prodigious example of a muslim democracy that was able to separate that it's really aging from its economy still can be applied to these day that's a spear point when i spoke about in the book was how ways gokey had done from being a complete basket decent make you to go away with hyperinflation and video of all the diagonal of the tide so a chief so much economic success and i think that was agreed but the problem there

is of course they do one day his and you do it has changed he now has become much more to talk to do you this story goes any criticism and more bad annoyed. to see more than four hundred cities around the globe are hosting mass rallies for shared justice freedom. followed million mask march on our t.v. and r t dot com. welcome back to the weekly this sunday here in our t.v. this week syria met the first ambitions deadline on that's path to chemical disarmament is successfully dismantled the facilities used to produce toxic weapons

but the tough task of eliminating the existing stockpiles lays ahead made harder by the war that continues to rage archies polls there are reports now from damascus. dangerous and dirty that's how the nobel prize committee described the work of chemical weapons inspectors inside syria not to mention a brutally tight deadline october twenty five damascus provides a detailed plan of its chemical weapons stockpiles done october twenty seven foreign inspectors visited or declared sites missed. syria finishes destroying all equipment used in the production and mixing of poison gas and nerve agents done we eliminate. whatever we can but you know this is a very complicated the process complications fueled by so-called security concerns and that's the reason why one deadline already has been missed one of the biggest

problems the team faces is how to access sites in rebel controlled areas so far the rebels have been unwilling to cooperate foreign inspectors have managed to visit twenty one of twenty three sites and although they haven't verbally blamed the rebels damascus insists it's doing its share until now. those. sites being visited are under government control and we hope those who are controlling the. group still them to implement what they are expected to implement it's the most difficult mission if undertaken by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons destroying a country's chemical weapon stockpiles in the midst of a civil war two women are syria actually stop producing chemical weapons in one thousand nine hundred eight as a possessed alternatives that can be a strategic substitution and are not in conflict with international law but none of this answers the reason why foreign inspectors are in damascus in the first place a chemical attack on august twenty first in which hundreds of people were killed

off two rockets with sarin gas were fired at damascus as suburbs those responsible are still at large the next deadline in the destruction of syria's chemical weapons program is the middle of next year by then damascus must have destroyed or removed its entire stockpile and ambitious timeline in very difficult circumstances policy r.t. damascus. some opposition groups stand accused of trying to hamper the russia u.s. brokered disarmament process and middle east analyst sharp mind nor won the believes the syrian government is happy to get rid of its chemical weapons because it removes an excuse for outside intervention there is that evidence that rebels have some their hands on some chemical weapons we've certainly seen in iraq and turkey rebels being apprehended with chemical agents components of chemical weapons in their possession. really important point and this is something i heard from a syrian government official earlier this year the syrian government has for some

time now viewed chemical weapons as a liability and a burden precisely for these reasons because potentially rebels could get their hands on small amounts of these chemical agents and use them across the border in israel or turkey to then justify a military attack against the syrian government so they have been quite pleased that the international community is come together to in fact to rid them of these weapons so that excuse no longer exists. we've always got more stories for you waiting on our website including facing up to reality the operator of japan's crippled fukushima nuclear plant is forced to turn to the u.s. for help in cleaning up the dangerous facility to find more details on actually dot com we're closely following the situation in and around the plant. plus giant party boats the secret behind google's floating structures in san francisco bay is revealed the four story high barges will travel up and down america's coastline

promoting the new wearable google glasses with the details head to our website. the peace process in pakistan has been d. ralph after a u.s. drone strike killed the country's taliban leader this week it happened just a day before a government delegation was set to start negotiations with the group in the country is now on a high security alert over fears militants could retaliate pakistan's interior minister accused washington of sabotaging efforts to end violence and a local expert told us he believes it's the pakistani people who will pay the price the prime minister a pox on both in washington d.c. only back and he had spoken to president obama ticket him into confidence regarding the dialogue process and it also made a request for the drone attacks to stop because we thought we could. read it if precondition the drone attacks must come to an end before they come to the dialogue be able but instead of the drone attacks being stop the continued so i knew what he

was going to sell for it is going to be the people of pakistan not the u.s. the united states does not have the right to be judge jury and executor all rolled into one without any of taught it to. a french government proposed eco tax has hit a nerve with the public as thousands hit the streets calling for it to be scrapped immediately. the french region of the tiny has been rocked by protests which turn violent police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse angry crowds furling rocks and bottles in response eco tax imposes levies on trucks weighing more than three and a half tons but it's been suspended amid concerns that it could drive companies out of business. a silent protest has been held outside the russian embassy in london in support of a documentary maker arrested along with thirty greenpeace activists to

demonstrators went inside the building to talk to russian representatives here on brian was filming the greenpeace attempt to board a russian oil rig in the arctic ocean in september moscow said the protest posed a threat to the crew and all involved are waiting to stand trial on charges of what we can assume. we have some pretty incredible live pictures for you right now a shot of a rare sight from nigeria a hybrid solar eclipse is what this is when the moon blocks the sun either fully or partially so that's what you're seeing it will also be observed in many parts of africa europe and the united states but the best you will be over the atlantic you can log on to our website are two dot com and enjoy a life of this breathtaking. you know other news britain's economy is recovering at

a slow but steady pace but the good news is not inspiring much hope in the area of the u.k.'s rust belt or to sara first traveled north to see what's being done to resurrect the industrial past. once providing the life blood to the british economy now much of britain's industrial infrastructure lies in ruin but whilst full industrial hubs like leeds and manchester have risen from the ashes many smaller northern towns and cities have had a harder time reinventing themselves and a recent article in the economist magazine ticket one step further suggesting that rather than further investment in places like middlesbrough or burnley and whole decaying towns and cities should be left behind it's true that economically britain remains of the clearly divided country but with all this talk of failing towns and cities we thought we'd come and speak to some of the people who actually live in

and find out what they have to say about it all and say we've come to the market town of burnley in lancashire in the north west of the country. so. people services. burnley's friendly and. and go to football. needs help i'm going to lead hope for here. because i don't want to be you're going to my. local opinion might speak divided but burnley which was recently named the most enterprising place in person deserves that accolade says n p called in but with so this is the university college girls to million program will be. transformed. into a course of learning for future people. there or the studio engineering

and construction costs in northwest of the country unemployment has continued to rise despite falling marginally across the u.k. on paper to look at the bunting some of these towns may carry some weight but try telling that to the people he's livelihoods and indeed lives have scented around such times by hordes. die we were fired by this earth r.t. reporting from but really in the northwest of england. breaking news this hour a developing story we're learning that up to two hundred people were in fact on board a ferry which capsized off the coast of the popular thai resort of the tire officials originally said that only fifty were on board the vessel we're hearing can carry is carrying only one hundred fifty passengers now this information is all unconfirmed

but there are reports that at least six people have died and twenty remain unaccounted for and in fact witnesses are saying we're hearing that the crowded boat capsized leaving those onboard no chance of jumping out and it's not yet clear what caused this accident but again breaking news we're getting reports that a boat has capsized off the coast of tire resort and that six people reported the have in fact died and we will stay on top of that story and bring you the news as and when we get it. well coming your way a war worlds apart with host talks on a boy but before we go here's some of the week's images from the olympic flames record breaking journey across russia. then a hundred days before the winter games in sochi the olympic flame flame is continuing its ambitious relay it's already been to the north pole and in just a few days will blasts off for the international space station the torch is passing

through towns and cities of the world's biggest country it's currently in russia's north don't forget to log on to r.t. dot com for more on the of the book marriage. the office of civil rights in the city of seattle washington has told city employees that certain terms may not be used in official emails and discussions scoring to google fox news these terms would be brown bag and citizen ninety nine percent of americans when they hear the expression brown bag think of taking a nice healthy lunch you know in a brown paper bag to work with themselves but in politically correct insanity land these words are an obvious reminder of the days when a person's skin color was compared to a brown paper bag to determine race well if any were even remotely linked to an incident of racism needs to be banned then we've got to get rid of the word blanket

because they gave the native americans disease till blankets to kill them and they block their land with beads so we've got to get rid of that word to remember the separate drinking fountains and segregated buses based on race in america yes so we can't say those words anymore either or we might just possibly remember something bad which could lead to the ultimate horror of the modern western world unpleasant thoughts we see a lot of western countries the term citizen becoming offensive because it makes resident foreigners legal or illegal feel like second class people well compared to actual citizens legally you kind of are if you're offended that you are not treated as a citizen of seattle why not assimilate become a citizen of the united states join the team but that's just my opinion.

hello and welcome to worlds apart of one thing in common between fund managers and fashionistas is that a preoccupation with chance then i'm just we're all about the tax grab the two thousand staff and today having for merging markets especially the bric countries who've collectively attempted to challenge the economic supremacy of the developed world our guest today believes that the world's fascination with brakes will be short leave them in fact is almost over but it doesn't necessarily mean the end of the rise of the rest well to discuss that i'm now joined by richard sharma who leads the emerging market team at morgan stanley mr sharma thank you very much for your time now if you break out.